John Shoptaw

If you're not a green poet, whatever other kind of poet you are, you're not paying attention.

An interview with me about my book of poems, Times Beach, is on Wheeler Column: <http://wheelercolumn.berkeley.edu/2016/07/13/john-shoptaw-wins-2016-northern-california-book-award-discusses-winning-book-times-beach/>

Times Beach
“Times Beach is, like most interesting American books, an original. It’s about a place, the watershed of the Mississippi River, and it is an ecopoetics. Best, perhaps, to think of it as a hybrid of Hart Crane, the depression photographs of Dorothea Lange, and a nineteenth-century lantern show—they called them ‘panoramas’—of the human and environmental history....